1. The document discusses understanding oneself during adolescence through various frameworks including aspects of self, the Johari window, self-awareness, self-concept, and stages of human development. 2. It emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and understanding one's strengths, weaknesses, and uniqueness in order to accept oneself and interact effectively with others. 3. Key aspects of self include intellectual, emotional, physical, spiritual, and social dimensions, while the Johari window model involves the known, blind, hidden, and unknown parts of oneself.

1. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Q1 Module 1:
KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING ONESELF
DURING MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE

2. Objective/s:
1.Explain that knowing oneself can make a
person accept his/her strengths and limitations
and dealing with others better
2.Share his/her unique characteristics, habits and
experiences

3. Lesson 1:
Knowing and Understanding Oneself During Middle
and Late Adolescence
Prenatal development
Birth
Infancy (0-3 yrs old)
Early Childhood (3-6)
Middle Childhood (6-8)
Late Childhood (9-11)
Adolescence (12-20)
Early Adulthood (20-35)
Midlife (35-50)
Mature Adulthood (50-80)
Late Adulthood (80+)

5. Aspects of Self
1. Intellectual Self: include a description about your
reasoning ability, problem solving skills, specific areas you
are good at or the wisdom you gained from your
experience.
2. Emotional Self: describe how you feel most of the time,
feelings you don’t want to experience and the emotions
you want to improve. You may include an experience
that makes you feel sad, happy, angry, etc.
3. Physical Self: describe your physical image. You may
include adjectives describing your complexion, height,
weight, hair, or any body parts that you like the most.
4. Spiritual Self – write a word or a phrase about your
over-all spiritual development. Describe your spiritual
connection to your religion and your spiritual relationship
with other people.
5. Social Self – include a description on how well you get
along with other people with different types of attitudes
and personality. Describe the kind of person you are
when you are with your closest friends, teachers, or your
family.

6. Questions:
1.As you accomplished the activities, what have you
realized?
2.Do these activities remind you of your unique identity
as a person? How?
3.Do you consider yourself as a unique individual? How
will you prove it?

8. Understanding the “Sense of Self”
✓Adolescence is a stage wherein we tend to build a
“socially constructed sense of self”, that is our sense of
self as influenced by how others views us. The socially
constructed sense of self is the reason why we tend to
seek approval and acceptance of other people for a
purpose of attaining sense of belongingness.

9. Who Am I? – A question that leads to a better
Self-Awareness
✓ Once you have a concrete understanding of your
entire being – your personality, strengths and
weaknesses, you may emerge as a resilient
individual who is prepared to be a responsible
adult.

10. Self-Awareness
✓Self-awareness is a state of having the knowledge
about our existence as unique individuals who are able
to recognize our values, beliefs, traits, behaviors and
feelings.
✓ The moment we are aware about ourselves – our strengths and
weaknesses, only then we can experience ourselves as unique and
separate individual beings.
✓ If we manage to become aware of who we are, we will become
empowered to making changes by building our areas of strengths
and at the same time by acknowledging our areas of weaknesses.
✓ Self-awareness is being significantly conscious of what we are good
at while recognizing our flaws, limitations and imperfections.

11. The Johari Window
✓The Johari Window is a technique that helps people
improve self-awareness, interpersonal relationships and
opportunity for personal development by giving or
receiving feedback on each other’s strengths,
weaknesses and blind spots.
✓This was developed by American Psychologists Joseph
Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955.

12. The Johari Window 1. Arena – or the Known Self. This form of the self is
what you and others see in you. Things we know
about ourselves and others know about us, like that
of the talents and skills or even our weaknesses that
we know about ourselves and others know about
us.
2. Blind Spot – or the Blind Self. These are our actions
and behaviors others know about us that we are not
aware of. These can be positive or negative and
may include hidden strengths and potentialities or
areas for improvement.
3. Façade – or the Hidden Self. In this form of self, we
hide things that are private about ourselves. These
may include feelings, ambitions and opinions that
we choose to hide due to fear of negative
reactions from others. Reasons for hiding may be
because we do not want our weaknesses to be
exposed.
4. Unknown – This form of self is not known to others
and not known to self. This includes skills, behaviors,
undiscovered talents, etc. that are unknown to us
and to others. If we explore and get ourselves
involve in new activities with new groups of people
will help us increase our self-awareness.

14. Self-Concept
✓According to Carl Rogers, a humanist psychologist,
Self-concept is our general awareness about
ourselves, the image that we have of ourselves. This
image is influenced by our interactions with other
people specifically those who are important to us.
✓Carl Rogers believed that our self-concept is made up
of three different parts, the actual self, the ideal self
and the self-esteem.

15. Self-Concept
Actual Self
• The Actual Self is our self-
image, the one we
actually see including
attributes.
• It is how we think and
feel, behave or act.
• This is built on self-
knowledge, which is the
actual genuine
information that we
have.
Ideal Self
• The Ideal Self is the self
that we aspire to be.
• The one we hope will
possess the
characteristics that we
really want to have
Self-esteem
• Self-esteem is our over-all
subjective sense of value
or personal worth.
• This is how we feel about
our strength and
weaknesses.